Improvement in needle-wrappers



PATENT GFFICE.

WILLIAM-BYFIEIID, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IM PROVEM ENT IN NEEDLE-WRAPPERS.

Speeieation forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,856, dated May 22, 1866.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BYFIELD, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Needle-Wrapper and Holder; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specifica-tion, and the letters of reference marked thereon, in which the same letter represents the same thing in each figure.

Figure l represents my improved wrapper open and ready to fold in the lines shown; Fig. 2, the holder with needle therein; Fig. 3, the wrapper opened at the ends, showing the heads and points of the needles; Fig. 4, the wrapper closed.

A is the Wrapper; B B B, the lines of fold; C C, the iaps; D, the needle holder; E, the needles.

The nature of my improvement consists in such a construction of the wrapper and manner of holding the needles that they may be examined at both eyes and points by the purcha-ser without touching them, and may be taken out one at a time without unfolding the wrapper or rendering the remaining needles insecure. This is secured by making the wrapper with a semicircular iap at each end, and by arranging` the needles one by one in a holder distinct from the wrapper :and to be folded therein.

The operation of this wrapper and holder needs no further explanation.

I am aware that needle-wrappers have been made with one iiap at the eyes 5 but such do not admit of examination of the points without opening the wrapper, and if two flaps were used the needles would escape, as there is no one at a time.

WM. BYFIELD.

XVitnesses:

GEO. H. COLLINS, Jas. S. WIGHTMAN. 

